Machine for pressing coats.



.No. 883,362. I PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908. A. W. TINDALL. MACHINE FOR PRESSING COATS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1906.

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ALFRED WILLIAM TINDALL, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

LIAGHINE FOR PRESSING COATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1906. a Serial m. 327,031.

Patented March 31,1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED WILLIAM TINDALL, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Leeds, in the county of York, England, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Pressing Coats, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to an improved machine or a liance for pressing the collars of coats andlilie arments, suchmachine being intended mainfyfor use in clothing factories and. tailors workshops during the manufacture of such coats or garments.

Description 0] Drawings..-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of in improved coat collar pressin machine. ig. 2 is a lan of the movab e ressing lever. Fig. 3 1s a plan view of the l hwer box. Fig. 41s a cross-section through the boxes, drawnto alarger scale. I

My improved a aratus consists essen] tially of a pair of ho ow pressing boxes A, B, suitably curved toreceive the collar between them and to im art the desired shape thereto, and heated mternallyflpreferably by admitted by way of the exible plpes The lower ressing box A is mounted on the front of a ed machine frame D, while the up er pressingi box B is carried by the front en of a double-armed ivoted lever E, which is mountedin bearings upon the rear part of the machine frame D and is provided with an adjustable weight G at its opposite or outer.

H and connectin veniently arrange treadle lever mechanism) to depress the .upper box B-intopressing contact with thelower box-A.

The lower pressin box A is rovided with end. The said lever E is o erated by trea'dle rod 1 or. by other cona detachable upwar l -project1n lip J along its front edge, for the purpose 0 facilitating the adjustment of the collar into position for the pressing operation, and of holding it in of the collar and its-seams by theoperator.

I claim:

' In amachine for pressing. coat collars, the

combination, with asupporting frame, of ,a

hollow lower pressing-box secured to the said frame, said lower box being curved to conform to the inner surface of a coat collar and provided with an inclined pressing surface at its top and having an upwardly pro ecting guide-lip at the top of the middlepart of its concave side, an operating lever plvoted' to.

the said frame, a hollow upper pressin -box secured to the said lever over the-said owerbox; said upper box being curvedto cona coat, collar andv 45 position during the preliminary arrangement 

